A VC in Vacationland
Seeking the next gen supply chain technology breakthroughs
recent posts
- The Role of Generative AI in Supply Chain Investment Strategies
- AI’s Impact on Supply Chain Investment Strategies
- The ‘New Normal’ is now the ‘No Normal’ in Supply Chains
- SRR—Sustainability, Resilience, Risk Management: The Latest Supply Chain Buzzwords & Investment Opportunities
- 3PLs–Investing in the Next Generation of Outsourced Supply Chain Solutions
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Category: Managing start-ups
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Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson's best seller Venture Deals-Be Smarter than your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist is the best book written so far on the subject of how an entrepreneur can survive the start up fund raising world with their dignity and perhaps their company intact. If you are an entrepreneur, or plan to be one,…
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Image via Wikipedia Are you finding it difficult to raise money to grow your company? According to Xconomy, a new online investment service called MicroVentures might be the answer to your credit crunch troubles. Austin-based MicroVentures matches companies seeking capital with investors looking to invest anywhere from $250 to $5,000 or more. The online investment…
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Image via CrunchBase According to a February 2011 post on Xconomy, there a few platforms that aim to connect investors and startups on the web, including AngelList, but for the most part investment transactions and venture funding is done face-to-face, many times with a hand shake involved. A new startup, called CapLinked, is hoping to…
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Image via Wikipedia I'm sitting at the gate at Logan waiting for my flight to Harrisburg when the "cancelled" announcement comes over the PA…after a two hour delay. Wonderful. US Airways says they can book me via Philadelphia with a 1230am arrival in Harrisburg, but the Phil-Harris segment is also "delayed", meaning likely cancelled. No…
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Image via CrunchBase Start-ups do not have a lot of time or money to make sure part time, full time or contract employees are, to be blunt, not crooks. BeenVerified offers an inexpensive and quick background check capability which can alert you that the person you are about to (or already have) hired is all…
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Image by jdlasica via Flickr Any entrepreneur knows that it is a still a tough time for good ideas to get funded. I have said often times in the past that I rarely see a bad idea, but often see a bad business model attached to a good idea. Reid Hoffman, serial entrepreneur- think Facebook and Zynga Gaming Network…
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Image via Wikipedia According to TechCrunch, search engine Trademarkia, which launched at TechCrunch50 in 2009, is an comprehensive database of over 6.5 million U.S. trademarks filed since 1870, including dead marks. Today, the database is launching a new feature that’s sure to be useful for both startups and large companies—automatic trademark activity notifications. Trademarkia…
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Image via Wikipedia One promise I made to myself when I became a venture investor was never to become a pr*** like a lot of guys in the VC world. I have had to live with my share of tough investing partners in this business. Often, they were right about how deals should go down,…
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Image via Wikipedia So you want to raise money for your startup and Uncle Bob recommends a friend of his who is "in the investment banking business". Be careful, be really, really careful when you choose a broker to solicit funds on behalf of your company. First and foremost, they must be a registered broker in good…
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Image by Thomas Hawk via Flickr I admit to being a bit skeptical, even after a second reading, of the Viral Loop marketing strategy as some universal rule for start up marketing. Adam Penenberg's best seller on the subject certainly has a lot of compelling stories about the "to use it, you have to spread…
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